Windows 7 Release Candidate

As a Microsoft employee, it saddens me to see Windows Vista get (what I consider) unfairly slammed. I think there were mistakes during the initial release and we encouraged people to install it on hardware that quite simply wasn’t capable of providing a good experience (i.e. low system memory, slow processor). Vista never recovered from the poor initial reception.

It’s a pleasant surprise to see so much positive news about our upcoming Windows 7. In a nutshell, Windows 7 is “faster and easier” than Vista. I’d encourage you to try it out for yourself. I like it so much that I am taking the release candidate and installing it on all my machines… home desktop, netbook, and primary work laptop.

My take on it is you get the speed of Windows XP + the reliability and enhanced features of Vista. (Plus new features of course – it’s easy to have multiple windows nicely aligned… window manipulation was such a pain in the past).